The iris AGC is pumping.
And there's audio phasing because he's moving in a reverberant space and talking.

Are you referencing the ghosting of the bright lamp?

At 3 seconds in, I see him sitting down.

I saw the neck of guitar headstock into frame.

Lando Lincoln: Are you referencing the ghosting of the bright lamp?

has to be

subby here.
i just 'discovered' this on youtube, thought it was real neat because it's very personal and intimate just one camera on one person [in this case, Lennon], a lot like a home-made youtube video of now a days, but almost 30 years ago instead.
whoa. freaky.

yup, i was referring to the "see-through" / "ghostly-ness" of lennon's guitar head and part of his leg and body as he moves into shot into the chair, infront of the lamp.

torch
The iris AGC is pumping.


I don't know what this means.... care to explain?

and there's audio phasing because he's movng in a reverberant and talking
yup, I knew that much... lol

Third_Uncle_Eno: I don't know what this means.... care to explain?

Automatic Gain Control. The white balance is trying to figure out the range of dark to light and is getting slammed by the lamp in the picture.So it goes muddy black and then figures stuff out when Lennon sits down.

/We didn't always have Charged Coupled Devices for our video inputs.

old video camera tech is old, to summarize what Torch said. There were no camcorders back then, and that setup was probably $10k or more.

Awesome video. Why couldn't Paul have been the one killed?

Man, that guy's good! If only YouTube was around back then to give him the success and fame that he deserves.

thank you DarkBrooks and cretinbob

i sure wish i had copied this gem.

yoko as a scumbag (new window)

alas, it's been taken down

I think he is being cheeky as John was known to be and was just doing an echo effect with his voice

echo echo echo echo

No Catchy Nickname: Man, that guy's good! If only YouTube was around back then to give him the success and fame that he deserves.

LOL!

I always liked this song. Poor John :(

Great find subby!
Anyone care to translate his ramble at the end?

It's amazing how great his voice was. No studio, no effects, just sitting in his living room singing into a camera. Even if he was a dirty hippy.

Nice find, thanks for the link!

cretinbob: Why couldn't Paul have been the one killed?

Because Paul's been dead for ages, honestly.

I can't believe I'm 6 years older than he was in this clip.
(I was a senior in high school when he was killed. Still pisses me off....)

cretinbob: old video camera tech is old, to summarize what Torch said. There were no camcorders back then, and that setup was probably $10k or more.

Er, in 1980? Are farking nuts?

Video had been in use for decades prior to 1980. Ampex had video systems in the 1950s.

Francis Ford Coppola was using video camcorders for quick playback in the 70s on his film sets, and Bruce Lee was using them for private martial art lessons with Steve McQueen and James Coburn where he would dub a voice-over over the footage they shot and give commentary for added info before sending it on to the respective students - the coburn ones are in circulation, and maybe one day the McQueen ones hopefully.

Also, the farking song 'Video Killed the Radio Star' came out in 1979.
The early 80s was the boom time for video, and granted home video with camcorders was rarer than Betamaxs and VHSs, they were still very much in existence and didn't cost $10K or more fer fark's sakes. Check the ads of video magazines from the early 80s as a guide.


/yeah, off my lawn before I video you and masturbate to it

cretinbob: There were no camcorders back then, and that setup was probably $10k or more.

Sony introduced the first video camera in 1966. Bob Crane had one and used it to record his trysts with various women.

My grandfather (a former TV salesman) had an RCA video camera he bought in the mid-70's. It consisted of a camera and a separate recorder unit, which you carried with a shoulder strap.

By 1980 you could get a (large) single unit camera of the type that were sold well into the 1980's.

One the Lennon clip: he's either in a hotel room or at their summer house at Montauk, as that's not the Dakota apartment.

GungFu

good points.
i was going to say something kinda similar but a lot shorter

my parents had one of those big grey heavy 'portable' video cameras [with a big battery pack(?) and tripod etc.] around 1982/83. I don't think it was all that expensive. granted, maybe it was the cheaper version... who knows... lol

czetie: cretinbob: Why couldn't Paul have been the one killed?

Because Paul's been dead for ages, honestly.

Paul just put on a well-received set at Coachella to a packed house. He's not really dead.

What are the odds if Lennon were still alive he could manage to put together a gig at the local Elks club? Zero. It's truly best for everyone John was taken when he was.

Still Itchy: czetie: cretinbob: Why couldn't Paul have been the one killed?

Because Paul's been dead for ages, honestly.

Paul just put on a well-received set at Coachella to a packed house. He's not really dead.

That's what Faul and his masters would have you believe.

/Wake up, man!

Wow, John Lennon invented youtube.

Add it to the list- backwards masking, feedback, sampling, recording through a Leslie speaker, etc. The man was a genius.

Glenechocreek: Wow, John Lennon invented youtube.

Add it to the list- backwards masking, feedback, sampling, recording through a Leslie speaker, etc. The man was a genius.

He also was one of the first artists (first artist?) to use a cassette recorder to record demos, as the Beatles were given four of the first Panasonic cassette recorders in the mid-1960's.

That was full of pure suck, drained from a 500 pound woman's kooter.